by Paul Watzlawick · Herder Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788425431890
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«El arte de amargarse la vida» is Paul Watzlawick's satirical essay on self-help, published by Herder Editorial in paperback (144 pages, in Spanish).
A parody of self-help manuals, the work presents in a satirical key a supposed art of making one's life miserable. With everyday examples, Watzlawick shows how certain patterns of thought and behaviour turn the ordinary into a source of suffering; recognising these traps allows the reader to distance themselves from the obsessive pursuit of happiness.
Work originally published in German as «Anleitung zum Unglücklichsein» in 1983; this is the second revised and updated edition in Spanish.
For readers of psychology and self-help seeking a critical and humorous reflection on the pursuit of happiness.
Paul Watzlawick was an Austrian-American family therapist, psychologist, communication theorist, and philosopher. A theoretician in communication theory and radical constructivism, he commented in the fields of family therapy and general psychotherapy. Watzlawick believed that people create their own suffering in the very act of trying to fix their emotional problems. He was one of the most influential figures at the Mental Research Institute and lived and worked in Palo Alto, California.
